Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Truth From the Street

Turning and Spinning in the Widening MireThe Congress cannot hear the Precedent;Things fall apart; the Party cannot hold;Sheer Conarchy is loosed upon Democracy,

The freedom-gouging tide is loosed, and everywhereThe Standing of America is downed;The best convictions are too polite, while the worstAre full of obtuse intensity;Surely some Reason is at hand.

Yet there instead, the Patriot “Act”!The “Patriot” Act!

Hardly are those words outWhen an Orwelled image out of Posse ComitatusTroubles my sight:

Somewhere in the martial curfews of this seminal TreacheryA shape with Oz-lion body and the head of a borne-again fool:An ‘Aye’ blank and clueless as the GOP itselfIs moving its leaky Trojan Agenda, but who knew?While overhearing guffaws & careless cheeringfrom the belly of the beast, that all about it now shouldgather threats of patriotic fillibuster, lighting & passing torchfire.

…Wounded cowardice drops again; but indignant couragefinds unexpected stride, in the edifying ironythat a Sitting President was on his Game after all,as if afloat, fishing! entirely untorn,glued from National Nightmare to “My Pet Goat.”

And what Hellbent Vision Thing,its Truthless Power come round at last,$louches towards Liberty to be Borne?